Friday 27 May 2011

Barnet Council elections :Andrew Harpers winning strategy

One rather interesting constitutional question has been posed to me. Councillor Andrew Harper is currently deputy Leader of the Council. This position was confirmed at the recent Council AGM. Surely as he's standing for the Leader job, he should resign as deputy Leader. The incoming Leader will clearly want to appoint their own deputy, so his position (should he lose) would become rather problematic. Surely any attempt to hang on to the job indicates a certain lack of conviction about his ability to do the job.

A rather mischievous source within the Barnet Conservative party has suggested that Harper has offered Robert Rams the deputy leader post in an attempt to stitch up the leadership race. The Barnet Eye is forced to ponder the question "Is even Andrew Harper dim enough to think that Rams would be an asset as deputy Leader?"

If you are lucky and you've never heard of Ramsbottom, here's his blog and here is his fan club.

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